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User’s manual

BARCO WALL CONTROL MANAGER

OVD/KVD/IVD

R591337

Barco Wall Control Manager, Current Version Title: BARCO WALL CONTROL MANAGER OVD/KVD/IVD – User’s Manual ID-no.: R591337 Revision: 04 Date: March-2016

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Contents

1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................................... 7

1.1 Styles and Symbols ........................................................................................................................................ 8

2 Barco Wall Control Manager in a nutshell ............................................................................................ 9

3 Network integration ........................................................................................................................... 11

3.1 Video wall subnet: assigning IP addresses ................................................................................................. 13 3.1.1 Short term IP addresses ...................................................................................................................... 13 3.1.2 Permanent IP addresses ...................................................................................................................... 14

3.2 Green BCM Client interface .......................................................................................................................... 16 3.2.1 Configuring the CLIENT interface ......................................................................................................... 18

3.3 Connecting to the Green BCM ...................................................................................................................... 19 3.3.1 Connecting via the WALL interface (video wall subnet) .................................................................... 19 3.3.2 Connecting via the CLIENT interface ................................................................................................... 19

4 Green BCM web interface ................................................................................................................... 21

4.1 Launching the Green BCM web interface .................................................................................................... 21

4.2 Green BCM Client .......................................................................................................................................... 22

4.3 Green BCM Services ...................................................................................................................................... 23

4.4 Admin ............................................................................................................................................................ 24

4.5 System .......................................................................................................................................................... 26 4.5.1 Settings ................................................................................................................................................ 26 4.5.2 System: Time ....................................................................................................................................... 27

4.6 Network ........................................................................................................................................................ 28

4.7 Wall DHCP ..................................................................................................................................................... 29

4.8 Devices .......................................................................................................................................................... 31

4.9 Remote Power Supply .................................................................................................................................. 31

5 Barco Wall Control Manager Client application ................................................................................. 33

5.1 System requirements ................................................................................................................................... 33

5.2 Launching the client application .................................................................................................................. 33

5.3 Overview ....................................................................................................................................................... 34

5.4 Setting up a video wall in Barco Wall Control Manager Client ................................................................... 35 5.4.1 Dashboard of a wall............................................................................................................................. 41 5.4.2 Dashboard of a display ........................................................................................................................ 41

6 Controlling and managing an OVD/KVD/IVD display wall ................................................................ 45

6.1 Switching on/idle ......................................................................................................................................... 47

6.2 Input .............................................................................................................................................................. 49

6.3 Color .............................................................................................................................................................. 51

6.4 Brightness ..................................................................................................................................................... 53

6.5 Contrast ......................................................................................................................................................... 54

6.6 Manage ......................................................................................................................................................... 55

6.7 Settings ......................................................................................................................................................... 55

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7 Replacing a display in a display wall ................................................................................................. 57

8 Controlling a WSM-200 with gBCM .................................................................................................... 59

8.1 Configuration for startup ............................................................................................................................. 59

8.2 Configuration for shutdown ......................................................................................................................... 60 8.2.1 User account ........................................................................................................................................ 60 8.2.2 Installation of an SSH server ............................................................................................................... 61

9 Contact ................................................................................................................................................ 69

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1. Introduction

1 Introduction This chapter explains the used typographic styles and symbols. Safety information is provided concerning the operation of computer systems from Barco.

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1. Introduction

1.1 Styles and Symbols The typographic styles and the symbols used in this document have the following meaning:

Bold Labels, menus and buttons are printed in Bold font.

Condensed Links to both other chapters of this manual and to sites in the Internet are printed condensed. In the on-line version of this manual all hyperlinks appear teal.

Courier Names of files and parts from programs are printed in the Courier font.

Courier bold Inputs you are supposed to do from the keyboard are printed in Courier bold font.

The sheet icon indicates additional notes.

Next to this icon you find further information.

This arrow marks tips.

Next to this icon you find important notes.


2. Barco Wall Control Manager in a nutshell

2 Barco Wall Control Manager in a nutshell Barco Wall Control Manager software is a server/client application to manage and control Barco large display walls. The server runs on dedicated hardware, the Green BCM. The Green BCM is a wall router and the gateway to launch the client application.


3. Network integration

3 Network integration The software for monitoring and controlling displays over the LAN is called Barco Wall Control Manager. Barco Wall Control Manager software is a client/server application. Barco Wall Control Manager service runs on the Barco Wall Control Manager wall router (Green BCM). The Green BCM comes with the Barco Wall Control Manager software already installed. The Green BCM wall router has two network interfaces, WALL and CLIENT. The WALL interface is configured as DHCP server and has the fixed IP address 172.29.1.1.

Benefits of DHCP server configuration with fixed IP address:

Any device connected to the DHCP server automatically gets a (short term) IP address.

A PC connected to the DHCP server (i.e. the network cable is plugged into one of the LAN switches of the video wall) can connect to and launch the Green BCM web page. This allows easy configuration of the devices of the video wall.

The CLIENT interface comes with the fixed IP address 192.168.10.1 and is set for manual configuration. The net-work configuration of the CLIENT interface allows integrating the Green BCM into the customer network thus allowing any PC/Laptop/workstation in the customer network to connect to the Green BCM and to run the Green BCM client application to monitor and control the displays. The Barco Wall Control Manager software enables communication to the WALL network via the CLIENT interface. Before integrating the Green BCM into a customer network it is recommended to configure the video wall sub-net. This is a private subnet in the range 172.29.x.y. The drawing below shows the general network setup. The displays are in a private "wall subnet" controlled by the Green BCM. Via the client interface of the respective Green BCM, connection to the customer network (Busi-ness LAN) is established.

Make sure to use cables with shielding of type S-FTP or S-STP when connecting the display to the network!

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After completion of the LAN cabling, power on the Green BCM: Since its WALL interface is configured as DHCP server all connected devices automatically receive a (short term) IP address which is the basis for the configura-tion of the system.

OVD/KVD/IVD displays have two LAN interfaces. It is recommended to setup the wall subnet using LAN1 and keep LAN2 for future use.

Each of the LAN interfaces have a (different) MAC address … thus one display features two MAC addresses.

Therefore for identification of the display the serial number is used which is unique for the display and constant over life time.

LAN1 of the display is connected to the WALL interface of the Green BCM Box! This is the only supported configuration!

A display MUST NOT be connected via LAN1 to WALL interface of Green BCM Box and via LAN2 to CLIENT interface of Green BCM Box!

A display MUST NOT be connected via LAN1 to WALL interface of one Green BCM Box and via LAN2 to WALL interface of a second Green BCM Box!

In case you think of additional ways of connecting a display be aware that these are NOT supported!



3.1 Video wall subnet: assigning IP addresses

3.1.1 Short term IP addresses Without any manual intervention, the Green BCM DHCP server assigns every device connected to the video wall subnet (WALL interface) the next free IP address. These IP addresses are in the range 172.29.128.x. They are valid as long as the device is connected to the subnet but are released approx. 1 hour after disconnection. The initial setup and configuration of a video wall is done by a PC / Laptop connected to the video wall subnet. Since also this PC gets an IP address of the Green BCM DHCP server this PC as a member of the same subnet can connect to the Green BCM server and allows configuring the wall network.

In case the PC/laptop is not connected to the video wall subnet (LAN switch of the video wall), it needs to be connected to the interface labeled Client, cf. Green BCM Client interface

Temporary IP addresses are assigned in the sequence the devices are connected to the network.

If you want to control the IP address assigment switch on the respective devices one by one, in the desired sequence.

The assignment of the IP addresses can be seen on the web page of Green BCM, page Wall DHCP. The IP addresses show up in the section short term IP address.

To launch the web page, connect a PC/Laptop to the LAN switch of the display wall.

On the PC/Laptop, launch Internet Explorer.

In its address bar, enter the URL of the Green BCM http://172.29.1.1

The web page of Green BCM opens.

On the left navigation bar, select Devices.

Click on the Search button to populate the page or to update the page, respectively.

It is strongly recommended to assign a permanent IP addresses to the displays. This allows launching the web interface of a display from the Green BCM client application (using the link of the IP address shown in the dashboard of a display, cf. 5.4.2 Dashboard of a display



3.1.2 Permanent IP addresses The section below descibes the method prior BCM 6.3.

Starting with BCM 6.3, assigning permant IP addresses in a structured way is supported in the BCM client.

It is recommended to use this functionality, cf.5.4 Setting up a video wall in Barco Wall Control Manager Client!

Only devices with a short term IP address can be assigned a permanent IP address.

It is recommended to restrict permanent IP addresses to the displays of a video wall.

Any device (represented by its MAC address) which is listed in the section Short Term IP table on the page Wall DHCP of Green BCM can get a permanent IP address. Permanent IP addresses are in the range 172.29.10.x. Click the checkbox(es) to select the desired device(s). Click on Permanent. The device will show up in the section DHCP Permanent IP table. The device will get the next free IP address of the valid address range (172.29.10.x)

Click All to transfer all devices of the Short-term IP table into the Permanent IP Table. The sequence of the permanent IP addresses will be accordingly the sequence of the short term IP addresses (i.e. the device with the lowest short term IP address will receive the first free permanent IP address and so on).



The addresses in the DCHP Permanent IP table are only valid / active after they had been added to the DHCP server configuration table and after the DHCP server has been restarted.

Restarting the DHCP server is done by clicking Apply on the page Wall DHCP.

The command Add inserts a new blank record into the permanent IP table. This allows entering the MAC address and the IP address from scratch. The command Delete removes a record from the permanent IP table. Add and Delete affect the table on the web page only. The entries of the table are written to the DHCP server configuration table only in case Apply has been clicked. This command restarts the DHCP server. A request to reboot the projection modules is displayed.



3.2 Green BCM Client interface The LAN interface labeled CLIENT on the Green BCM comes with the static IP address 192.168.10.1. If the PC/Laptop is not a member of the video wall subnet (i.e. connected to the LAN switch of the video wall), the PC/Laptop to configure and control Green BCM needs to connect to the interface of Green BCM via its inter-face labeled CLIENT. Therefore the PC / Laptop needs to get a static IP address in the same address range, e.g. 192.168.10.2. Connect a PC to the CLIENT interface of Green BCM via a network cable. Make sure that the PC is running. Windows 7: Select Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network Connections With the respective adapter selected, click on Change settings of this connection.

On the dialog, select Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4). Click Properties.

Make sure to select Use the following IP address and enter IP address, subnet mask and gateway:



Click OK to activate the new settings and to close the dialog. Also close the properties dialog and the Network Connection window. Now the PC/Laptop is properly connected to the CLIENT interface of Green BCM and can communicate with Green BCM., for example assigning permanent IP addresses to the projection modules, cf. Permanent IP addresses



3.2.1 Configuring the CLIENT interface Configuring of the client interface is done on the page Network of Green BCM, section Client Network. Leaving factory, the CLIENT IP address is set to 192.168.10.1.; and Configure Green BCM is set to Manually. In case the CLIENT interface needs to be accessible at a different static IP address, enter the desired IP address and adjust Subnet Mask and Gateway accordingly.

Click on Apply to apply the new settings. In case the PC/Laptop is connected to Green BCM via the CLIENT interface, and in case the new static IP address is in a different address range than the previous one, the PC/Laptop won't be able to connect to Green BCM any longer. To re-establish connection, the IP address of the PC/Laptop also needs to be adjusted.

The CLIENT interface can also be configured as DHCP client of the customer network (business LAN). If Configure Green BCM is set to Using DHCP no more parameters need to be set.

In case Configure Green BCM is set to Using DHCP, this interface needs to be connected to a DHCP server (cus-tomer network, business LAN).

All PCs/Laptops connected to the same network (DHCP server) can communicate with Green BCM.



3.3 Connecting to the Green BCM

3.3.1 Connecting via the WALL interface (video wall subnet) Every PC / Laptop connected to the video wall subnet can connect to Green BCM like this: • On the PC, launch Internet Explorer.

• In its address bar, enter the URL of Green BCM WALL interface, http://172.29.1.1

3.3.2 Connecting via the CLIENT interface

The Barco Wall Control Manager software enables communication to the WALL network via the CLIENT interface.

Every PC / Laptop connected to the CLIENT interface of Green BCM and knowing the IP address of the CLIENT interface of Green BCM can connect to Green BCM like this: (First assign the PC / Laptop an IP address in the same address range (factory IP address of Green BCM CLIENT interface: 192.168.10.2) • On the PC, launch Internet Explorer.

• In its address bar, enter the URL of Green BCM CLIENT interface.


http://172.29.1.1/

4. Green BCM web interface

4 Green BCM web interface The Green BCM web interface allows changing server settings (Admin), starting the client application (Green BCM Client), changing server network settings (Network), showing or configuring wall network DHCP addresses (Wall DHCP), showing and configuring detected displays (devices). It also allows starting / stopping / restarting / showing the service; switching the Green BCM to standby or re-boot the Green BCM, downloading log files and configuration files. It also allows resetting the database.

4.1 Launching the Green BCM web interface Connect a PC/Laptop to one of the LAN interfaces of Green BCM. Launch Internet Explorer In its address bar, enter the URL of the Green BCM http://<ip address>

If connected to the WALL interface, the IP address is fixed to 172.29.1.1

If connected to the CLIENT interface, the factory IP address of 192.168.0.1. might have changed in the meantime. Please cf. Connecting to the Green BCM

The Green BCM landing page opens

You might navigate to a different page either using the link on the left navigation bar or on the home page.

The Link Remote Power Supply is only available if the LCD displays have been upgraded with a DC power module.



4.2 Green BCM Client On top of the page you see the version of Green BCM. For OVD/KVD/IVD displays it needs to be version 6 or higher. Click on the link Start Green BCM Client.

The Green BCM client application runs in a web browser. For best look and feel, use Mozilla Firefox.



4.3 Green BCM Services This page requires login! A dialog pops up. Enter valid credentials!

This page gives access to tasks related to the Green BCM service and Green BCM database.

Green BCM Services Start Starts the service

Stop Stops the service

Restart Stops and subsequently starts the service

Green BCM Database Reset Saves a copy of the database and then clears the database (the data-base is overwritten with an empty database). A second go of “Reset” will thus copy the new empty database (all data of the original database gets lost!!)

Restore Restores the database, i.e. the copy made during the Reset operation gets the active database.



4.4 Admin This page requires login! A dialog pops up. Enter valid credentials!

Tasks Green BCM Services / Show Shows the services running on Green BCM (see screen below)



Green BCM Services / Reboot Reboots the Green BCM controller

Green BCM Standby All displays and the BCM controller are shutdown. Restart the entire system using the Green ONOFF button or the command Start offered on the BMC web page activated after the Standby command has been sent. The command to put the display wall into standby needs to be con-firmed.

When confirmed, the Green BCM box and all displays are shutdown. The web page changes to allow starting up the system again.



4.5 System

4.5.1 Settings

Use this page to view how long the Green BCM server is up and running. Manage Green BCM Box (GBCM) can also control an NGP-200 running Windows 7 (WSM-200 Workstation Mini). When the system goes to Standby it will shut down the WSM-200 before disconnecting it from power. When starting up the system the WSM-200 will also start. This document describes the configuration steps to be executed on the WSM-200 so it can be shut down and started by the GBCM. Enter the permanent IP address or PC host name and click Apply. The gBCM will PING the PC; and, if successful, establish a connection. To configure the WSM-200 you need to download the Key! Click on the link. For configuration of the WSM-200, see 8 Controlling a WSM-200 with gBCM The host name is subject to following restrictions:

Host name limitations: Host name labels may contain only the ASCII letters 'a' through 'z' (case-insensitive), the digits '0' through '9', and the hyphen (-). Host name labels cannot begin or end with a hyphen. No other symbols, punctuation characters, underscores or blank spaces are permitted. Avoid using only numerical characters or names consisting entirely of hexadecimal digits ('0' through '9' plus the letters 'A' through 'F'). Do not use names longer then 15 characters Do not start your computer name with a numerical character.



4.5.2 System: Time

This page allows selecting the Time Sync Mode to either manually or using an NTP Server. NTP servers can be defined by entering their IP address. Select the required time zone to transform time information (either from NTP server or from the Green BCM hardware clock) from UTC into a local time zone.



4.6 Network

Green BCM features two network interfaces, one labeled WALL, one labeled CLIENT.

Only the interface labeled CLIENT can be configured.

The WALL interface is fixed.

In case you change the configuration of the Client Network the new settings are immediately applied. The command Apply activates the settings and restarts the DHCP server, i.e. it writes the permanent IP address-es into its configuration table and also updates the table with the short term IP addresses (if a device has been deleted from the table, or if a device has been disconnected from the network. New discovered devices are im-mediately listed; no restart of the DHCP server is required).



4.7 Wall DHCP

Starting with BCM 6.3, the BCM client offers a structured assignment of permanent IP addresses during setup of the display wall. It is recommended to use this functionality, cf. 5.4 Setting up a video wall in Barco Wall Control Manager Client

When using IP re-addressing in the client, you don’t need to work with the Wall DHCP page of Green BCM.

The network interface of Green BCM labeled WALL is configured as DHCP server. Any device connected to this interface automatically gets an IP address. This IP address is in the short-term address range 172.29.128.x. A short term IP address is leased for 1 hour; in case the device gets disconnected, its short term IP address will be released. If required this address will be assigned to another device detected in the video wall network. Besides the short term IP addresses Barco Wall Control Manager Software offers to assign a permanent IP ad-dress to a device. The MAC address of the device and the assigned IP address are stored as a pair in the configu-ration table of the Green BCM DHCP server. In principle all devices listed in the Short-term IP table can get a permanent IP address: select the device (tick the checkbox), and then click Permanent: the device will get the next free permanent IP address and be listed in the Permanent IP table.

The buttons Permanent, Add, Delete "just work on web browser level".

To actually apply the changes you need to click Apply! This command re-starts the DHCP server, the entries of the Permanent IP table get copied to the configuration table of the DHCP server.

A device which is either disconnected from the network, or which MAC Address has been added to the configuration table of the network, will be removed automatically from the short term IP address table at the next time the DHCP server "looks for devices"(at max. after an hour)



The command Add creates an empty record in the table which allows entering MAC Addresses/IP addresses from scratch. The command Delete removes the record from the table (Add and Delete refer to web browser level, see above). The DHCP Permanent IP table allows editing the MAC address and the IP address. Thus the IP address can be given according the position in the video wall. To apply the new MAC address or IP address, respectively, the checkbox needs to be ticked when clicking the Apply button!

To activate any changes in the permanent IP table requires

• To restart the DHCP server (click Apply) • To restart the Green BCM server (On the Green BCM web interface, navigate to BCM

Services. Click on Tasks- BCM Service -restart – now the new address gets visible in Green BCM. (see screen below))

• To reboot the display (launch the web interface of the display and push the reboot button (see screen below))



4.8 Devices

To initiate a search for devices connected to the wall network click Refresh.

The page Wall DHCP shows all devices connected to the WALL interface of Green BCM, thus also PCs might be listed.

The page Active Wall Devices shows only devices controlled by Green BCM.

4.9 Remote Power Supply

This link and the navigaton bar and the related page is only available if the LCD displays have been upgraded with a DC power module.

When the page is opened, data of the remote power supply is queried.



The result shows the number of power supplies per back plane, the output voltage, the output current, the tem-perature and the fan health.


5. Barco Wall Control Manager Client application

5 Barco Wall Control Manager Client application

5.1 System requirements CPU bandwidth >= 1 GHz Main memory >= 1 GB Hard disk >= 60 MB Minimum display or browser resolution: 1280x800 Ethernet port 100Mbps or more Windows 7 32–bit, 64–bit Internet Explorer 11 or later Mozilla Firefox 39 or later Google Chrome 44 or later JavaScript needs to be enabled Popup dialogues need to be enabled

5.2 Launching the client application The Barco Wall Control Manager Client application can be launched by any Windows PC connected to the Green BCM.

Click on BCM Client to start the client application. The client starts in the browser the web page of the Green BCM is displayed.

Connection to a Green BCM is restricted to one client!

For BCM UI, a display or browser resolution of at least 1280x800 is required else the content cannot be shown properly (see above, system requirements).



5.3 Overview The Barco Wall Control Manager software is a server/client application to control and operate Barco's video walls.

The server application runs on the Green BCM which is a component of every video wall. All displays of a video wall are connected to the WALL interface of the Green BCM. It is via the DHCP server configured for this interface that all displays get automatically a unique IP address in the short IP address range (which can then be made permanent on the Wall DHCP web page of Green BCM).

All actions different from assigning IP addresses and configuration settings are done using the Barco Wall Control Manager client.

• Creating/deleting a wall

• Assigning devices to a wall

• Color and brightness adjustment of a display (fine tuning SenseX)

• Brightness adjustment of the entire wall

• Selection of color temperature of the entire wall

• Switching a display on/idle

• Switching the video wall on/idle

• Selecting the active input of a display

• Selecting the active input of a wall

It is via the user interface of the client application that commands are sent to the server which addresses the respective display

The manual describes the currently available functions within the Green BCM client application.

The web interface of the displays provides additional functionalities like selecting a timing, uploading firmware and so on.

The web interface of a display can easily accessed via the IP address shown in the dashboard of the display, cf.5.4.2 Dashboard of a display :

The web interface is explained in the Reference Manual Webinterface OVD/KVD/IVD.



5.4 Setting up a video wall in Barco Wall Control Manager Client When Barco Wall Control Manager client is launched and no wall has been created yet the web page just shows the command buttons:

The settings button allows switching on and off the visibility of tool tips.

The tool tips show helpful information about the controls of the user interface.

It is recommended to have them visible (checked) until you are familiar with the BCM client.

This setting is stored cookies based for the current host user and browser. There is no browser or BCM user specific storage.

Use CTRL + (+/- mouse-wheel) for browser based zooming. Be aware that scaling is not unlimited and depends on wall size and browser resolution.

Click SETUP: The initial setup screen pops up.

Enter the dimensions of your video wall (Video wall Width, Video wall Height) and a descriptive name. (The name of the video wall can be edited later).



The max. number of displays in a wall is 50. So the max. width is 50 displays when the display wall is one row in height.

Use the spin buttons to set width and height – the fields are not editable.

Click on the button next to the wall name to add this wall.



Subsequently edit the wall details.

Enter project ID, owner, city, and country. Click OK Continue to the next step. The next step links the cell in the grid to a display, represented by its serial number.



Make sure that IP Readdressing is checked! This will later assign DHCP based permanent IP addresses to the displays in a structured way (from top left to bottom right)

Click Assign: The Green BCM looks for the all the devices it finds in the wall subnet. The serial numbers of all found devices are listed gray.

Since there are two LAN interfaces and thus two MAC addresses, the serial number of the display is used as identifier.

The first serial number in the list is highlighted blue. In the video wall, the display with this serial number starts blinking (black-white pattern).



Click into the corresponding cell in the wall grid (display position) to assign the display with this serial number. The font color changes to green. In case this device must not be assigned to this display wall, click SKIP.

The next serial number in the list is ready to be assigned only if the previous serial number has either been assigned or skipped.

Proceed accordingly until all cells in the grid show a green tick, i.e. every cell is linked to a display.

(To unassign a device, click into the respective cell in the grid. Subsequently push the button Unassign.) Click Done. If IP Readdressing is ticked, the displays will now get a permanent IP address in a structured way, row-wise, from top left to bottom right (seen from front). In case the display is set to a static IP address, it will be skipped. Before IP readdressing is processed, an info dialog is shown which allows skipping the readdressing.



If confirmed with OK, readdressing is started. At first the DHCP table of Green BCM is adapted. After adapting the GBCM DHCP table all displays will be triggered to request new DHCP addresses. There is no restart/reboot of the system and displays needed to finish the IP readdressing. Displays which are configured with static IP addresses will be ignored in that procedure and not changed. After pressing "Ok" on the IP readdressing info dialog it can take several minutes (depending on the amount of displays) before the new IP addresses have been assigned. During the readdresseing, the displays modules on the wall dashboard will disconnect and show connection specific status messages When readdressing has been finised (or skipped), the Home screen now shows the dashboard of the video wall. With KVD and IVD displays, after setting up a display wall, a brightness scheduler is displayed: You might configure the scheduler later using the button Manage, cf.6.6 Manage.



5.4.1 Dashboard of a wall The name of the wall is indicated below the navigation bar. The status of each display is indicated by the box color of its position indicator. Green: On, black: Idle, red: Error, orange: Unknown, grey: not assigned.

5.4.2 Dashboard of a display The pigeon blue border around the grid shows that the entire wall is selected and will be addressed. To select a dedicated display only, click in the grid. If the active page is HOME, this will show the dashboard of the display:

Click on the gray arrow on the bottom of the screen to open the System Info:

On the right of the table, you see a menu icon. Click to open a list box which allows selecting/unselecting the properties shown in the System Info. The following properties are available: Device Type, IP, Connection State, Operation State, Serial, Firmware, Build, LCD Driver, Selected Input, Active Input, Tiling Position X, Tiling Position Y, Tiling Height, Tiling Width, EDID, Display Mode, CB Mode, Color Tempera-ture, Locus Distance, Min Brightness, Max Brightness, Target Brightness, Backlight Level, Brightness Correction, Black Level, White Level, Whitebalance X, Whitebalance Y, CPU Board Temp, OPS Slot Temp, LCD Driver Temp, Power Supply Temp, Ambient Temp, Fan 1 RPM, Fan 2 RPM, Display Runtime, Backlight Runtime, System Uptime.



Click into a display: this opens the dashboard of the display. The dashboard of a single display informs about the display type, the IP address, the serial number, the type of the display. Also connection status and operation status is shown. The dashboard also allows sending the command for reconnection in case the display has lost its connection.

At the bottom of the screen the System Info for this displays can be shown/hidden. Click the menu to select the properties you want to be shown in the System Info. Since the information next to the display shows the Display Type, Display IP, Serial Number, Operation State, Connection State, these properties are not available in the System Info table of a display.

If you need to access the web interface of the display, click the IP address shown in the display dashboard.

The colored square at right bottom shows the connection status of the display. If it looks green, the display is connected and its operating state is on. In case the connection status is disconnected, the square shows red. In addition he display in the wall grid shows Error.



The following table lists the color and the related device status: Status indicator Connection state Operation state

Green connected On

Gray connected Idle

Orange/Amber connecting unknown

Red/White Error/disconnected unknown

If one of the display disconnects from the network, it will take about 30-35 seconds until the display is shown as error/disconnected. The central status indicator of a displays module on the BCM-UI wall dashboard is alternating between text “re-trying”, “connecting” while trying to establish or re-establish a connection to a display for the first ~200s after disconnect of the network connection. After that "retrying" will be shown constantly indicating a switch to ping based availability check which will con-tinue until a connection can be established again. It's not necessary to trigger a reconnect manually if the disconnect takes more than ~200s. A red error sausage indicates a problem with the connection mechanism itself. This might happen just after starting-up the GBCM or BCM service. This is not a problem and related to availability of the service connection module. The error indicator will disappear when the BCM service is ready. To leave the dasboard of the display, click „Back to Overview“: if you visited the dashboard of the display starting from Home screen, you will then be redirected to the Home screen of the display wall. (Clicking “Back to Overview”) if dashboard has been activated on the Control screen will redirect to the Control screen of the display wall.)


6. Controlling and managing an OVD/KVD/IVD display wall

6 Controlling and managing an OVD/KVD/IVD display wall The Green BCM software allows addressing all displays in the wall or one single display.

In case you want to control a single display:

First navigate to the page (CONTROL, MANAGE).

Then select the display.

Activating a page will remove a display selection.

Click Control: on bottom of the screen, the commands are displayed. In case the browser window is too small the control panel will overlap the wall grid. Please note that the minimum resolution for the client is 1280x800 pixels. The display wall (no matter how many displays in horizontal direction (columns) will be centered in the browser window (mini displays are scaled). In vertical direction the client offer a scrollbar for scrolling to the desired dis-play.

On the Control page, you can always hide/show the control panel by clicking the arrow:



In Control view, when you click on the display label, you will immediately be redirected to the dashboard of the display:

To leave the dasboard of the display, click „Back to Overview“: if you visited the dashboard of the display starting from Control screen, you will then be redirected to the Control screen of the display wall. (Clicking “Back to Overview”) if dashboard has been activated on the Home screen will redirect to the Home screen of the display wall.)



6.1 Switching on/idle The ON/OFF button on the right of the wall grid allows setting the entire wall (entire wall shows a pigeon blue border) or a selected display to idle (if running, and vice versa).

To select a display, click into the display: the display will show a pigeon blue border as visual indicator that it is the target for the commands.



To select the entire wall, click the wall button on the left of the display:

To select a rectangular range of adjacent displays, proceed like this:

Select one display by left-clicking into the display and drag it to the adjacent displays.

This is the only way for multi selection. No other mouse actions or key strokes are supported.

Not all controlling actions support multi selection. Amongst others, multi selection works for switching displays on/idle, selecting inputs, …

If multiple displays are selected, no combined status is shown.



6.2 Input The OVD/KVD/IVD displays have the following inputs for video signals:

OPS Open pluggable specification channel with HDCP 1.4

DVI 1, DVI 2 DVI single link input with HDCP 1.4, up to 165 MHz)

HDMI HDMI 1.4a with HDCP 1.4, up to 300 MHz

DP DisplayPort input with HDCP 1.3, up to 300MHz

On the Control page, you can select the input of the entire wall or of an individual display. You can also view and select the currently active input(s). The mini displays show the selected input and (in brackets) the active input. In case the active input is not the same for all displays, multiple buttons show a colored border.



In case all displays are set to the same selected input, only one button shows a colored border.

Click the button showing the input name to set this input active input for all displays. To select the active input of a single display, click the display. Subsequently push the respective input button. The current version of the Green BCM software allows setting the active input only. To select a timing for the input, or to upload a new timing, launch the web interface of the display (go to the HOME page and select the display. This will show the dashboard of the display. Click the IP address to open the web interface. On the navi-gation bar of the web interface, navigate to Edid. Select or program the timing.) The INPUT tab allows setting the display mode and enabling/disabling tiling for the entire wall. Display mode can also be set for a single display.



6.3 Color When the entire wall is selected, the control panel of COLOR shows buttons to select the color temperatures of 3200K, 6500K; 9300K, 11000K, custom, native.

Selecting on of the color temperatures button sets the entire wall in the SenseX color mode and triggers the adjustment algorithm to run for the selected color temperature. If Custom is clicked, a custom color temperature can be set and the locus distance defined. The supported values are indicated. The OK button gets only enabled if a valid color temperature has been entered.

For a single display, the COLOR control panel allows adjusting the white point – this is for fine tuning the result of the SenseX adjustment algorithm. This functionality is not available in native mode, only in SenseX mode.



For manual color adjustment, click NATIVE. To change color in NATIVE mode (red gain, green gain, blue gain), launch the web interface of the device and navigate to Color&Brightness.

It takes some time until the displays and all properties are updated.

Display properties are being polled by the server from the display at constant rate in the background. This takes around 20 -25 secs until all displays and all properties are updated. Refreshing a browser window e.g. by pressing F5 will not shorten this time since it will not trigger a polling cycle.



6.4 Brightness On the Brightness panel you set the brightness of the backlight. For maximum brightness performance push the slider to the right, for more economic operation set the backlight to lower levels and push the slider to the left. The brightness linearly scales along with the backlight level. In NATIVE mode, brightness can be set in the range from 0 to +100 (like in the web interface of the device). In SenseX operation mode, values in the BRIGHTNESS control panels are in cd/m². The current brightness value is written in big. The available range to set brightness is indicated by the grey bar.

The brightness is not adjusted during pushing the slider but only if the set value is fix for 5 seconds. Only then the adjustment is triggered. Brightness adjustment to the set value is also triggered when navigating to this page or when refreshing (F5) the content of this page. The target brightness is applied to all displays; however due to production tolerances of the displays the display wall might still show some inhomogeneity in brightness. Thus brightness adjustment of the individual displays might be required. Adjusting the brightness of a single display offers a slider for individual brightness adjustment.

Please note that it takes some time until all displays and properties are updated. F5 (refreshing browser window) does not help.



6.5 Contrast Contrast can be set on the entire wall only, not on an individual display. The CONTRAST control panel offers two sliders, one for black level and one for white level. The Black Level and White Level are used to adjust levels of video signals.

Increase the black level to achieve better visibility in dark areas of images, lower it down to achieve more satu-ration of colors. Increase the white level in case the video signal doesn’t utilize the full dynamic range to achieve more bright-ness After pushing the sliders the settings need to be constant for 5 seconds before adjustment to the set value is triggered. The adjustment procedure is also triggered when navigating to this page or when refreshing (F5) the content of this page.

It takes some time until the displays and all properties are updated.

Display properties are being polled by the server from the display at constant rate in the background. This takes around 20 -25 secs until all displays and all properties are updated. Refreshing a browser window e.g. by pressing F5 will not shorten this time since it will not trigger a polling cycle.



6.6 Manage On this page you can schedule brightness measurement. Measurement can be scheduled on daily or weekly bases. Click the dropdown TIME to select a time according your needs. Click on the desired day of the week. Click the dropdown Weekly and set the measurement to weekly (or daily, if desired).

When time, day, and repeat have been set, click the button to activate the task.

A task can be scheduled for the entire wall only, not for a single display.

6.7 Settings Use the Settings menu to show/hide tool tips.


7. Replacing a display in a display wall

7 Replacing a display in a display wall In case a display is broken and needs to be replaced, proceed like this: Note the position of the display in the wall. Disconnect the broken display from the network and physically exchange the broken display by a new display.

Make sure that the broken display is no longer connected to the network!!

Write down the serial number of the new display – the serial number is listed on the product ID label In BCM client, click Setup on the menu bar. The display wall is shown (and could be edited). Click Next .to access the dialog allowing assign/unassign a display:

Make sure that IP Readdressing is checked!!

Select the position of the replaced display in the grid and click Unassign to remove the display from the wall setup. The information box next to the display will already show the new device! Click Assign. The first entry in the information box is selected. Click Skip until the identify pattern becomes visible at the new display.


7. Replacing a display in a display wall

Assign the new display to the positon of the replaced display. Click Done. This will trigger IP re-addressing for the new assigned display which will receive a permanent IP address

Check the firmware version of the new display. In case it does not match the version required for the display wall, perform a firmware upgrade using the web interface of the display

In case you end up with duplicate IP addresses, go to GBCM webpage Wall DHCP and remove the MAC address of the broken display, cf.4.7 Wall DHCP.


8. Controlling a WSM-200 with gBCM

8 Controlling a WSM-200 with gBCM

The WSM-200 has two network interfaces. One of the network interfaces is connected to the WALL network of gBCM.

Make sure that on WSM-200 for the network connection to gBCM the Windows firewall is Off.

8.1 Configuration for startup To make startup working correctly, the BIOS setting of the WSM-200 need to be adjusted. Check/apply the following settings:

Tab Parameter Value

Advanced AC Power Loss State Always ON

Chipset Wake on LAN Enabled



8.2 Configuration for shutdown WSM-200 remote shutdown requires the following steps: • Create a user named shutdown

• Install a ssh server and configure it to run as service.

8.2.1 User account On WSM-200, go to Start\Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\User Accounts\add Create a user “shutdown” with password “shutdown” (Control Panel Check “Password never expires”. Check “Account is disabled”.



8.2.2 Installation of an SSH server Basically any SSH server would do. We recommend to install Copssh as ssh server. It can be downloaded at https://www.itefix.net/content/copssh-free-edition. Copssh had been tested and is further documented on https://www.itefix.net/copssh. The setup wizard guides through the installation process:

Copssh requires a dedicated service account. You might accept the default settings as suggested by the setup wizard and create the service account svcCOPSSH. At the final step of the installation launch the CopSSH control panel.


https://www.itefix.net/content/copssh-free-edition

https://www.itefix.net/copssh.


8.2.2.1 COPSSH Control Panel

Use Start-All Programs-Copssh-COPSSH Control Panel to manually launch the Copssh control panel.

The COPSSH Control Panel features 5 tabs: Status, Users, Configuration, SFTP, About. On the Status tab, you can monitor, start and stop the service

On the Users tab, you need to add the user “shutdown”, cf. 8.2.1 User account



Click Add to start the Copssh User Activation wizard:

Enter domain and the user “shutdown”.



On the next screen you need to define access type as Linux and Sftp. Also Allow PKA authentication needs to be checked:

Click Apply to complete adding user shutdown.

Navigate to the tab SFTP. Make sure to remove the tick in Enabled to disable SFTP:

Click Apply To make the changes effective the service needs to be restarted.



Got to the tab User. It should now look like this:

Click on Keys to import the key downloaded from the gBCM web page, cf. 4.5 System

Click Import.



Navigate to the key id_rsa.pub downloaded from gBCM and open the file with e.g. Notepad. Select the entire file contents. Copy it to the clipboard. Paste it to the COPSSH for import:

Click Apply.

For the new settings to become active the WSM-200 needs to be restarted. When the WSM-200 is up and running again, launch the COPSSH Control Panel (cf. 8.2.2.1 COPSSH Control Panel). On Status tab click the button connection and check the active connections – the user shutdown needs to be listed.



8.2.2.2 Additional remark

The service is called Openssh SSHD. You might also start/stop the service via Windows Services (Start-Control Panel – Administrative Tools – Component Services)


9. Contact

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